[Mosh]

Originally Posted by tokenyank

Hi Mosh - Quick question in hopes this is in scope of your support!

I've just installed YOURLS on a 4 letter domain I managed to get to create my own shortening service as shortening services die, I'd rather run my own to ensure that links in the wild are maintained rather than 404'd.

YOURLS doesn't require auth and allows a get/post api call to access the service:


I've just tried to add the service into your mod and not working - I'm hoping you might be able to shed a bit of light on the subject?

What I've done is changed all instances of the cURL from:

elseif ($vbulletin->options['ms_vbtwitter_use_url_shortening'] == 3)
			{
				$tinyurl = curl_init();
				curl_setopt($tinyurl, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=' .  $baseURL);
				curl_setopt($tinyurl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
				$shortURL = curl_exec($tinyurl); 
				curl_close($tinyurl);
			}
			else
			{
				$metamark = curl_init();
				curl_setopt($metamark, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://metamark.net/api/rest/simple?long_url=' .  $baseURL);
				curl_setopt($metamark, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
				$shortURL = curl_exec($metamark); 
				curl_close($metamark);
			}

to:

elseif ($vbulletin->options['ms_vbtwitter_use_url_shortening'] == 4)
			{
				$metamark = curl_init();
				curl_setopt($metamark, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://metamark.net/api/rest/simple?long_url=' .  $baseURL);
				curl_setopt($metamark, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
				$shortURL = curl_exec($metamark); 
				curl_close($metamark);
			}
			else
			{
				$mums = curl_init();
				curl_setopt($mums, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://mums.ws/yourls-api.php?signature=<SECRET API EDITED OUT>&action=' .  $baseURL);
				curl_setopt($mums, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
				$shortURL = curl_exec($mums); 
				curl_close($mums);
			}

And the piped from:

<optioncode>select:piped
0|No url shortening
1|bit.ly url shortening
2|is.gd url shortening
3|TinyURL url shortening
4|Metamark url shortening</optioncode>

to:

<optioncode>select:piped
0|No url shortening
1|bit.ly url shortening
2|is.gd url shortening
3|TinyURL url shortening
4|Metamark url shortening
5|mums url shortening</optioncode>

XML imports without problem, settings store with no problem, and NEWTHREAD creation without problem - however it doesn't Tweet the new thread to Twitter.

I'm not a php guru, but from going through your mod, it seemed to me that is was all I needed to change however since it is failing, I guess I was wrong...

Could you perhaps either help me get this working or add a provision in the next update to allow installations of YOURLS to be handled for those of us who want to use our own shorteners?

Thanks Mosh, I apprecaite your help in advance!

I will look into this at the weekend and we shall see. However, I am not promising anything at this stage... so, you will have to wait and see.